Jason's questions

I am running ubuntu 12.10 desktop edition. I am having and issue with my DNS not resolving certain internal names on our network. We run 3 internal DNS servers. Originally the 1st one (192.168.6.1) had the other 2 servers set as upstream, but now we've removed that.

I have set nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf successfully to list all 3 nameservers instead of just the one name server (192.168.6.1) which it had originally.

I can't resolve names that are resolvable on the 2nd and 3rd DNS.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 192.168.6.1
nameserver 10.10.11.5
nameserver 10.10.11.4
search internal.local

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.6.180
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    broadcast 192.168.6.255
    gateway 192.168.6.1
    dns-nameservers 192.168.6.1 10.10.11.5 10.10.11.4
    dns-search ontech.local
    mtu 1250

As you can see, the name servers are all setup in the right files.

Now to test out the name servers:

$ nslookup
> server 10.10.11.5
Default server: 10.10.11.5
Address: 10.10.11.5#53
> aws-internal-frontend
Server:     10.10.11.5
Address:    10.10.11.5#53

Name:   aws-internal-frontend.internal.local
Address: 10.10.10.5
> server 192.168.6.1
Default server: 192.168.6.1
Address: 192.168.6.1#53
> aws-internal-frontend
Server:     192.168.6.1
Address:    192.168.6.1#53

** server can't find aws-internal-frontend: NXDOMAIN
> server 127.0.0.1
Default server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
> aws-internal-frontend
^C
$ ping aws-internal-frontend
ping: unknown host aws-internal-frontend

As you can tell, the 1st DNS can't resolve the name but the second one can. I have this second one setup in my /etc/resolv.conf yet it won't use that name server to attempt to resolve the address.

What settings do i need to change to fix this so that i can ping aws-internal-frontend.

Thank you

I am having this problem with my server when I boot. I'm trying the fsck /dev/sda1 by logging into maintenance mode which i get the option to do when it boots. Check the screen shot.

It's so far found 9 inconsistencies and fixed them. Can anyone give me any advice? is there a recovery mode for debian?

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l uname -r: 2.6.26-2-amd64

Proc info: http://pastebin.com/1gVtNLxM

I can't seem to send mail through my php scripts or through the linux console on my Centos 5.5 LAMP server, when the email is addressed to go to a domain that is hosted by my box.

I think it is something to do with the email routing internally, or the DNS servers that the box uses not reporting the correct MX records.

Basically my box doesn't host any mail, it's all hosted on google apps. My name servers are hosted by a 3rd party provider and I am using webmin. Webmin doesn't recognise the settings on the 3rd party provider.

I'm unsure how to fix this. Previously when I had this problem on a cpanel server, I would edit the remotedomains and localdomains files, moving domains from one file to another and it would fix the problem.

What information do I need to provide for anyone to work out what the issue is?

Thanks

I previously setup my server by downloading php from php.net, and using the configure, make make install to get it onto my apache centos server.

Now I want to upgrade and I'm not sure how to do it.

If I do what is said here: http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php53/ It will attempt to upgrade php to 5.3.8. that's not an issue for me, but my concern is that it won't work because I have php 5.2.14 installed through the compile, rather than through YUM

What should I do - is there a way to save the current state of the server in order to reverse changes if it breaks?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

thanks

Jason

I need to forward any http request from my old server IP to my new IP.

I migrated servers and there are a few domains that have a high TTL and I could not update. Is it possible to take all HTTP requests from one server running centos/whm/php/apache 2+ and forward them to the new ip?

Since I have hundreds of domains I'd prefer a solution that involves running an app on the linux box that will push requests automatically to the new box.

Thoughts?

I've tried using IP tables and forwarding all incoming connections using the preroute chain, but it seems like this only works for forwarding to internal IP addresses, and the new IP is external.

Is there any software that will allow me to mount a rackspace drive in linux? I want to copy sql files from my database onto my rackspace. I have web min running a backup nightly and copying those backups offsite would be ideal for obvious reasons.

On my windows desktop I've been using cyber duck to upload/download and manage files on the server.

I purchased a subscription to "Jungle Disk" but this problem was unstable on all the systems I had available in my office - ubuntu and win 7. The application itself seems alright but any click took on average 10 seconds to respond.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to the most simple way to copy this stuff to rackspace??

I have a cloud-files account and am using ubuntu.

Thanks

Jason

I need to add this line to every .htaccess file that is located in a /home/*/site/assets/.htaccess where * can be any amount of directories deep

I need to fine this text

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/assets/sym/$1 [L,NS]

and add a line above it, or replace it with this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site/assets/sym
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/assets/sym/$1 [L,NS]

I've looked online at this site but I am unclear how to deal with

1. generating a list of the files I want to edit (so find all files that match this path: /home/*/site/assets/.htaccess)
2. Adding line breaks in the replace text

Can anyone suggest a resource that will clearly explain it, or fail that, let me know if I am looking at the correct tools for this job?

My OS is Cent OS 5.5, i'm running a LAMP server if that makes much difference, apache 2.

Thanks

I've been attempting to restrict access to an internet connected apache instance. My router has a port forward to the machine that is running apache. Don't know if this makes a difference.

Anyway I want to restrict it to LAN access only for the moment, and I want to use htaccess so that later I can enable visitors based on specific IPs. It is a dev server that I want my clients to be able to remotely preview, but not anyone else.

I've tried the instructions here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess.php which explain to do this

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168.1

In my .htaccess file, but this doesn't work, I can still access it from outside the lan. I'm trying it from my phone's 3g and it works.

If I change the order to something like

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1

(remove the comma) as per the apache docs here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html#allow and the page still allows access on my phone and on the local.

Any ideas?

I've setup the following in my virtual hosts:

<VirtualHost app.pdf-edelivery.com>
ServerName app.pdf-edelivery.com
DocumentRoot /home/pdfedelivery/public_html/site
<Directory "/home/pdfedelivery/public_html/site/">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The premise is that I want to redirect app.pdf-edelivery.com to the site/ folder. Here's the issue i'm facing. I think there is some sort of conflict. If you ping app.pdf-edelivery.com it resolves to the correct IP address of my server.

About 6 records above that record (in the httpd.conf file) there is this record:

<VirtualHost pdf-edelivery.net>
DocumentRoot /home/pdfedelivery/public_html
<Directory "/home/pdfedelivery/public_html">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
ServerAlias www.pdf-edelivery.net pdf-edelivery.net www.pdf-edelivery.com pdf-edelivery.com www.pdfedelivery.com pdfedelivery.com www.pdfedelivery.net pdfedelivery.net www.pdfedelivery.com.au pdfedelivery.com.au
</VirtualHost>

Which I am concerned is somehow conflicting with the above record. No matter how many times I restart apache, I can't get app.pdf-edelivery.com to go to the correct site (which you can currently see at pdf-edelivery.com/site/)

Any ideas what I am missing here?

I'm running a MS windows, using Netbeans 7. I occasionally get a problem when I hit save, "This file was modified externally, are you sure you want to overwrite"

Further investigation has led me to believe that the problem is with the times being out of sync between the NAS and my computer. All the computers on our network sync their time with time.windows.com

Can anyone advise me on how to sync the linux box with time.windows.com, if this is possible? Or can someone suggest an alternative method to syncing the time together?

I have 5 windows PCs and one mac. Netbeans is the only program that throws this error, I think because the way it is coded is to check the last time saved against the file's last modified date, which because the NAS is set to be 2 minutes behind the rest of the PCs it constantly gets confused.

The NAS is mounted through SAMBA if this makes any difference.

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BusyBox v1.16.1 (2011-04-08 10:13:58 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

blackbird> uname -a
Linux blackbird 2.6.32.12 #1613 SMP Fri Apr 8 10:10:14 CST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux synology_x86_1511+
blackbird>

I have a LAMP server currently running. It's been falling over a lot because there is too much stress on the DB. I'd like to split the DB out of there and run it on a separate machine. I have about 100 websites currently running on the server already.

Here's my plan: 1. setup a new server, install mysql on the server 2. on the webserver, open the port 3306 to be an iptunnel to 3306 on the new server

Is this advisable or would it be better to go through and manually change the database server in the scripts to the other one?

If I were to do that, presumably I'd have to adjust all the users in the database to allow access from the webserver now right?

Thoughts?

can I enable the slow query log specifically for just one database?

What I've done currently is to take the entire log into excel and then run a pivot report to work out which database is the slowest. So i've gone and done some changes to that application in the hope of reducing the slow query occurence. rather than running my pivot report again which took a bit of time to cleanse the data i'd rather just output slow queries from the one database

possible?

I want to give the www-data user the ability to restart bind9 using this command

service bind9 restart

At the moment, they can execute it and it will stop bind9 but not restart it again complaining that permissions will not allow a chmod of the file "named".

can you point me in the direction of what i need to do

Update

Okay so I added the line to the sudoers as requested.

www-data      ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/bind9

It still has some issue:

root@LAMPREY:~# su www-data
$ service bind9 restart
 * Stopping domain name service... bind9                                        rndc: error: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: permission denied
rndc: could not load rndc configuration
                                                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting domain name service... bind9                                        chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/named': Operation not permitted
$ exit

I also then tried running another command

/etc/init.d/bind9 restart
 * Stopping domain name service... bind9                                        rndc: error: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: permission denied
rndc: could not load rndc configuration
                                                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting domain name service... bind9                                        chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/named': Operation not permitted
$ exit

with the same result

I'm running apache in a lamp configuration. Recently I had some sensitive files available because of a mix up in the options -Indexes in my HTacess.

Now I want to find out if anyone accessed those files in the time they were up.

Where would I go to find such information?

The server has WHM and cpanel installed and I have full access to it.

I'm running an internal network LAMP server on ubuntu 10.10. I have another ubuntu running on an older ppc g5 with a 640gb drive in it. I'd like to run some software on that G5 that does some snapshot and archiving over the network of the data running on my lamp server.

Ideally i'd like something that has a simple admin gui that allows me to browse and restore files.

What would be a good piece of software?

Thanks

Jason

I currently have a PowerPC g5 running Mac OSx. I've network shared one of the external hard drives (which is mac formatted, hfs+ journalled i believe).

I'm now upgrading this to an ubuntu computer, and I want to ditch that external hard drive and use the ubuntu server's hard drive (ext4).

My question: Can I store Mac fonts on ext4? When I zip and copy the fonts to a windows pc on the network, they all come up as 0kb. Is there anyway to fix this? If not, will these fonts still work on a networked MAC pc? so if I have another mac on the network will it be able to read the ubuntu file system and pick up those font files?

Let me know if you'd like me to explain further, sorry I am new to all this.